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indiˈsposedness Now rare or Obs.
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The condition of being indisposed; indisposition.
†1. Want of arrangement, disorder. Obs.
a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 III. 384 Who can fansy how out of..Confusion and Indisposedness the World could be created?
2. Want of adaptation; unfitness.
a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. ii. 1 A child hath in it a reasonable soul, and yet by the indisposedness of the body..it is so bound up that its difference from the beasts..is not so apparent as afterwards.
3. Disordered state of health; bodily indisposition.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 500 Dulnesse, drowsinesse, or indisposednesse of head, or stomach. c1655P. Henry in Life in M. Henry's Wks. (1835) II. 619 My very great indisposedness in point of health. 1683Tryon Way to Health 70 For this..causeth a heavy indisposedness through the whole Body.
4. Mental indisposition; disinclination, unwillingness.
1651Bp. Hall Susurrium §73 Not that we should in the midst of a sensible indisposedness of heart fall suddainly into a fashionable devotion. 1656Baxter Reformed Pastor (1862) 234 Our own darkness, dulness and indisposedness to duty. 1685Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 156 [They] declared their utter Indisposedness thereunto. a1691J. Flavel Sea-Deliv. (1754) 182 The indisposedness of the Master that evening both to meat and sleep. |